Coin holder



Patented Feb. 14, 1939 l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

'Ihis invention relates to coin holders, one of the objects being to provide a simple and inexpensive device for holding coins, tokens and the like.

Another object of the invention is to produce a durable coin holder including a receptacle wherein a plurality of coins may be removably confined by a simple detent integral with a portion of the receptacle.

A further object is to provide a small compact coin holder which may be conveniently carried in a hand bag, or the like.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention comprises the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more speciiically described and shown in the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one form of the invention. However, it is to be understood that the invention comprehends changes, Variations and modiiications within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

Fig. 1 is a top View of a coin holder embodying the features of this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section taken approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig, 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section taken approximately on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a top view of a plate or web having integral spring arms adapted to be located within the coin holder.

To illustrate one form of the invention, I have shown oppositely disposed coin holders A and B formed in a casing including a top member 5 pressed upwardly to form the upper walls 6 and side walls 'I of the coin holders. Each of the coin holders is in the form of an elongated receptacle or guide adapted to receive a row of coins, tokens, or the like. One end of each coin holder is provided with an entrance 8 for the coins, and a finger receiving opening 9 extending from said entrance to permit forcible sliding of the 'coins through the entrance. As shown in Fig. 1, each entrance 8 and the adjacent iinger-receiving opening 9 may be formed by a continuous elongated opening in the top member 5, said opening being widened at the entrance. To expose the coins in the coin holder, sight openings 9 may be formed in the upper wall 6 of each coin holder.

An inner wall or plate I is located below the top member to provide paths for the bottoms of the coins. The plate I0 may be made of hard cold rolled steel and has detents, or spring arms, II formed integral therewith. The spring arms II may be economically formed by cutting oppo- (Cl. 13S-6) sitely disposed slots I2 in the plate IU, as shown in Fig- 4.

Each spring arm II extends upwardly into one of the entrances 8 to normally confine coins in the coin guides. As shown in Fig. 2, the outer 5 margin of each arm II may be turned downwardly and extended outwardly to provide a flange I3 located below a marginal portion I4 of the top member 5 to limit the upward movement of said spring arm, l l0 The casing may be provided with side walls I5 having their lower marginal edges inturned at I6 to secure a bottom wall I'I within the casing.

A backing member I8 may be disposed between the bottomwall I'I and the plate I0. 'I'he backing 15 member I8 is preferably provided with a recess I9 below each spring arm II, as shown in Fig. 2, to provide for the depression of said spring arm during the insertion and removal of coins from the coin guide.

The specic combination and arrangement of details her-ein disclosed produces a neat, attractive and eicient coin holder, 'consisting of a few simple and inexpensive elements that can be very easily and quickly united to produce a iirm and substantial laminated structure.

Attention is directed to the simplicity of the approximately iiat laminated layers including the at bottom wall, or layer, II which is preferably a mirror made of glass; and the flat backing layer I8 preferably made of cardboard, or other yieldable material, serving as a protective backing member, and permitting a considerable degree of clamping pressure to be safely applied to the bottom marginal iianges I6 in assembling the lami- 35 nated structure. Another simple layer appears in the iiat web, or plate, I0 made of spring material and merely slotted at I2 in lines extending from its opposite edges in directions longitudina-lly of the coin guides, to provide the free spring arms II.

The approximately flat top layer 5 can be readily perforated to form the various openings, and easily pressed to provide the parallel coin-receiving channels in its bottom face, the bottoms of said channels being closed by the fiat spring web I 0 to complete the elongated coin passageways. An advantage in assembling and uniting all of the elements of the device appears in the downturned side portions I5 of the top layer, which 50 surround all of the other layers, and the inturned lower marginal portions IB providing a marginal attaching frame beneath the ilat bottom layer I 1. However, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the speciiic combination and arrangement of numerous details herein set forth. The scope of the patent is defined by the terms employed in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A coin holderV comprising a casing having an outer wall pressed upwardly to provide an elongated coin guide, an entrance being formed at one end of said guide, and an inner plate located below said outer Wall to provide a path for the bottoms of the coins in said guide, said inner plate having a spring arm formed integral therewith and extending upwardly into said entrance to normally confine coins in the coin guide, said spring arm being provided with an extended ange located below a portion of said outer wall to limit the upward movement of said spring.

2. A coin holder comprising approximately flat laminated layers including a bottom wall, a yield-l able backing layer seated on said bottom wall, a web of spring material seated on said backing layer, and a top layer seated on said web of spring material, said top layer having an upwardly extended elongated portion providing an elongated coin guideadapted to hold a row of coins between said web of spring material and the top of said upwardly extended portion, one end of said upwardly extended elongated portion being provided with an entrance for the coins and a finger-receiving opening extending fromV said entrance to permit forcible sliding of the coins through said entrance, said web of spring material being slotted in lines extending from one of its edges iti-directions longitudinally of said coin guide to provide a free spring arm integral with said web, a portion of said spring arm being extended upwardly into said entrance, the free end of said arm being located immediately below a marginal portion of said top layer adjacent to said entrance to limit the upward movement of said arm, said backing layer being open in the area below said spring arm to permit depression of said arm, and said top layer being provided with downturned side portions surrounding all of the other layers an-d inturned lower marginal portions providingV a marginal attaching frame beneath said bottom wall.

HENRY F. DIESING. 

